Donald Trump suggested that his campaign may take away press credentials from The New York Times, his latest attack on the media over the course of his presidential campaign.

At a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, Monday, the Republican presidential nominee called the Times’ coverage of him “very dishonest” and suggested adopting the same ban on the newspaper as he has on The Washington Post. Trump revoked the Post’s press credentials in June after the newspaper published an article critical of Trump’s statements about a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida.

“It’s gotten a little better,” he said about the Post's coverage. “I should do it with the Times.”

Over the course of the election, Trump’s campaign has banned nearly two dozen news organizations from campaign events, including POLITICO, BuzzFeed, The Huffington Post, Univision and The Des Moines Register. The bans, which have been criticized on First Amendment grounds, have been enforced unevenly. Trump has told CNN that, if elected president, he would not interfere with the White House press credentialing process.

At a campaign event last week, a Post reporter was frisked by police and barred from a campaign event held by Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. Pence apologized for the incident and said he would work to change the Trump campaign’s habit of banning news organizations from events.

The Post remains banned from attending campaign events, as is POLITICO.

Hillary Clinton will address the National Association of Black Journalists and National Association of Hispanic Journalists convention on Friday in Washington, D.C.

"It is notable that Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has recognized the 2016 NABJ-NAHJ Convention as a vital gathering to discuss her platform and the issues impacting black and Latino communities," NABJ President Sarah Glover said in a statement. "Presidential nominees and U.S. presidents from both parties have attended NABJ annual conventions, including President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush, and presidential nominees Barack Obama, Bob Dole and Al Gore. We're ecstatic to add the first woman nominee to our list."

BuzzFeed reports the groups also extended an invitation to Donald Trump to speak as well, but that his campaign has not yet responded. Trump has tangled with Hispanic journalists in the past, including booting Univision's Jorge Ramos from a press conference and tangled with Telemundo and NBC host Jose Diaz-Balart.

"Throughout her campaign, Hillary Clinton has placed an emphasis on inclusion and has shown support for communities of color. Her decision to support this event further shows her commitment to diversity, and we welcome her just as we've welcomed President George W. Bush and Mexican President Vicente Fox to previous conventions," NAHJ President Mekahlo Medina said in a statement.

The Libertarian presidential and vice presidential candidates, Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, are continuing to take their third party message to channels that in the past have not spent much time covering candidates that weren't Republicans or Democrats.

On Wednesday, August 3, CNN will host a Libertarian presidential town hall in primetime at 9 p.m. Johnson and Weld will field questions from voters, and Anderson Cooper will moderate.

It will be the second town hall CNN has hosted with Libertarian candidates this year. The channel previously hosted a town hall featuring Johnson and Weld back in June. Fox Business Network, which has significantly less distribution than CNN, hosted a Libertarian party debate before the candidates were selected.

For CNN, the town hall also gives some exclusive programming during a month that can be slow for cable news, even in an election year.

The Commission on Presidential Debates responded to Donald Trump and the Republican National Committee's complaints about the debate schedule with a message on Sunday: The schedule is set.

"The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) started working more than 18 months ago to identify religious and federal holidays, baseball league playoff games, NFL games, and other events in order to select the best nights for the 2016 debates," the commission said in a statement. "It is impossible to avoid all sporting events, and there have been nights on which debates and games occurred in most election cycles. A debate has never been rescheduled as a result."

Trump and RNC officials have complained that two of the three scheduled presidential and one vice-presidential debates overlap with NFL games. Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort said the campaign staff would sit down with the CPD "in the next week or so" to discuss the debate schedule, and RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said last week that he believes the political parties should have more to say on the general election debate schedule. On Sunday, Priebus added: "Certainly we're not going to agree with anything that our nominee doesn't agree with."

The presidential debates are slated for Sept. 26 at New York’s Hofstra University, Oct. 9 at Washington University in St. Louis and Oct. 19 at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas. The vice-presidential debate is set for Oct. 4 at Longwood University in Virginia.

The bipartisan CPD selected the dates and locations in September 2015. The NFL announced its regular-season schedule in April. There's nothing unusual about games being scheduled on Sunday or Monday nights.

In 2012, each of the debates fell on football game days. Each debate attracted at least 58 million viewers, with the first debate drawing nearly 70 million.

"As a point of reference, in a four-year period, there are four general election debates (three presidential and one vice presidential), and approximately 1,000 NFL games," the commission said in its statement.

"The CPD selects the debate dates a year in advance in order for the television networks to have maximum lead time and predictability in scheduling these extremely important civic education forums. The CPD believes the dates for the 2016 debates will serve the American public well."

Later, John Podesta tweeted a response to the Trump campaign. "This is just more Trump debate malarkey. We will be at the debates set by the bipartisan debate commission and expect he will too," tweeted the chairman of Clinton's campaign.

Though the debates were set well before Trump or Hillary Clinton became the nominees of their parties, Trump’s campaign has suggested the Clinton campaign manipulated the process to guarantee the debates would be seen by fewer people. This theme was also heard by supporters of Bernie Sanders during the Democratic primary.

On Sunday morning, this line of argument was made by Jason Miller, Trump’s senior communications adviser, on CNN in an interview with “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter.

"Our position on the debates is we want as many people, as many voters, to be participants in and to see the debates as possible," Miller told Stelter.

Trump himself made the argument on Saturday in taping an interview for ABC's "This Week." He said: "HIllary wants to be against the NFL." He also said he got a note from the National Football League that agreed with him, though the NFL subsequently denied sending any such note.

An average of approximately 30 million viewers watched Hillary Clinton's acceptance speech on the final night of the Democratic National Convention Thursday evening, according to preliminary ratings data from Nielsen.

For comparison, 32 million watched the final night of the RNC last week, and 35.7 million watched the final night of the DNC back in 2012.

The numbers do not include people watching on some other channels, like PBS, C-SPAN or Univision, nor do they include those that may have streamed the event online. Final numbers will likely be a little bit higher, and will come in later this afternoon.

Vice presidential candidate Mike Pence said the Trump campaign is having conversations about lifting the blacklist it has applied to certain media outlets.

Speaking to radio host Hugh Hewitt on Friday, Pence defended his own history of dealing with the news media, saying he authored legislation while in Congress to help protect journalists’ confidential sources.

“We’re going to have those conversations internally and I fully expect in the next 100 days we’re going to continue to be available to the media, whether they’re fair or unfair," Pence said.

The Trump campaign has blacklisted certain outlets, including POLITICO, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and others, from attending his events because of what he considers unfair coverage. On Friday, CNN’s Chris Cuomo said he is blacklisted from the Trump campaign “because of how we conduct our interviews.”

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The Donald Trump campaign is continuing its practice of denying credentials to certain members of the media, despite now being the official Republican nominee.

On Thursday, The Washington Post’s Jose DelReal was turned away from attending a rally with Vice Presidential nominee Mike Pence. After being turned away in the media line, DelReal tried to enter as a member of the public but was told he could not enter with his laptop or cellphone because he is a Washington Post reporter.

"After placing his computer and phone in his car, DelReal returned to the line and was detained again by security personnel, who summoned two county sheriff’s deputies. The officers patted down DelReal’s legs and torso, seeking his phone, the reporter said,” The Post’s Paul Farhi reported. "When the officers — whom DelReal identified as Deputy John Lappley and Capt. Michelle Larsuel — verified that he wasn’t carrying a phone, the reporter asked to be admitted. The security person declined. “He said, ‘I don’t want you here. You have to go,’ ” DelReal said."

A biting statement came from Washington Post editor Marty Baron:

“First, press credentials for The Washington Post were revoked by Donald Trump,” he said. “Now, law enforcement officers, in collusion with private security officials, subjected a reporter to bullying treatment that no ordinary citizen has to endure. All of this took place in a public facility no less. The harassment of an independent press isn’t coming to an end. It’s getting worse.”

Pence officials told the Post that the incident didn’t reflect their policy and that they were looking into it.

Trump has been banning and blacklisting media organizations for nearly a year now. Trump has blacklisted POLITICO reporters for months now, though he recently requested copies of a POLITICO Magazine special convention issue with him on the cover.

But now that he’s the official nominee, does the Republican National Committee have any sway or any comment on Trump’s practice?

Apparently not. When asked to comment, two RNC spokespeople simply referred POLITICO to the Trump campaign, whose spokeswoman did not return a request for comment.

There’s also the question of a protective press pool. Clinton, at times, has a pool who send out reports to the rest of the press corps when she does events that her entire press corps can’t fit into. Trump has yet to assemble a pool, though there have been discussions about one for months. It may not matter - nearly all of Trump’s events are large rallies not necessarily coffee-shop stops that typically require a pool.

Trump told CNN that in the White House, there would be no blacklists. But so far, as the official nominee, the blacklists are alive and well.

Fox News and Gingrich, former speaker of the House and presidential contender, agreed to suspend his contributor deal last month, when he was on the short list to be Republican nominee Donald Trump's running mate. Indiana Gov. Mike Pence ended up getting the nod.

Gingrich was a contributor with CNN before joining Fox last October. He'll return to Fox on Monday.

The final day of the sweltering Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia wraps up Thursday, marking the finish line for political reporters who darted from Cleveland to the city of brotherly love to cover both contentious political conventions in a two-week-long reporting sprint.

But NBC’s “Nightly News” crew is just beginning to hit its stride in its own version of a summer news marathon. Anchor Lester Holt and the “Nightly News” team are a few days away from jetting to the site of this year’s summer Olympic Games —Rio de Janeiro, Brazil — for two more weeks, the last leg of an unusually busy summer for the news crew.

This “Lester Summer Tour,” as Holt called it, began on July 14, where he flew to Nice, France, to report after the deadly attack on a Bastille Day celebration. The team came back to New York that Friday, and then almost immediately jetted to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio. They regrouped in New York for a day before they headed to Philadelphia this week, where they’ve been broadcasting from the Wells Fargo Arena since Sunday.

“We’ll finish up back in New York Friday and then Wednesday I’m off to Rio for 17 days. And then they claim the body when I get back to New York,” he told POLITICO, laughing.

“It’s basically about five weeks on the road,” he continued. “… This is how we roll.”

For Holt, who was named anchor of the network’s flagship news broadcast a little over a year ago following the departure of Brian Williams, it is his first time as part of NBC’s quadrennial summer marathon, which the network news staff have dealt with every four years since the broadcaster acquired the rights for the Summer Olympics in 1988.

Occasionally there's a week-long breather before events; for instance, in 2012, The Olympics wrapped up Aug. 12, and the RNC kicked off Aug. 27. But this year’s back-to-back-to-back conventions and Olympics coverage — compounded with the show's coverage of the Orlando, Florida, club shooting, the police shooting in Dallas, Texas, and the attack in Nice — has made this summer busier than ever.

“This is the longest sustained period of travel I’ve had that I can remember,” Holt said.

But Holt and “Nightly News” executive producer Sam Singal, who has also been on the road with him, aren’t complaining.

“We love that we get to broadcast Nightly from the Olympics games," Singal, who was named EP in September of last year, told POLITICO. "It's one story that the whole world gathers around to watch.

The “Nightly News” crew’s Olympics coverage is being led by supervising producer Joo Lee, who Singal said has “owned the Olympics” for the last year. Lee, who also led the 2012 Olympics coverage for "Nightly News" is already in Rio, Singal said, preparing storylines, coordinating with NBC Sports and preparing for the broadcast, which will begin Aug. 4.

It's not just "Nightly News" that's there; all of NBC News will have an immense presence at the Olympics. NBC’s “Today” show crew, which has also been at both conventions, is heading to Rio to broadcast the show beginning Aug. 1; "Today" hosts Matt Lauer and Hoda Kotb and special correspondent Meredith Vieira will host NBC's coverage of the opening ceremony on Aug. 5. ("Today" show host Savannah Guthrie, who is pregnant, won't attend over concerns about the Zika virus.)

The hundreds of NBC News and sports staffers who will be based in Rio during the games will make it almost feel like the team is reporting out of New York, Holt and Singal said. And almost as if they were New York, the team is prepared to hop on a plane in case they need to cover breaking news elsewhere.

"As challenging and tiring as it can sometimes be, it's exciting and exhilarating, too," Singal said. "That’s what we all live for — breaking news and getting out there and doing the best we can. One of the things about the news business that's so exciting is that you never know what's going to happen, and we just thrive on that.”

Just over 24 million people watched night 3 of the Democratic National Convention during the 10-11:45 p.m. time period, according to preliminary ratings data from Nielsen.

That number is on par with night 2 from the DNC, as well as night 3 from 2008. In 2012, night 3 also served as the final night of the convention, and as such delivered substantially higher ratings, averaging more than 35 million viewers. The ratings were slightly higher than night 3 of the RNC last week.

From 10-11:45 p.m., when all three broadcast networks and cable news were covering the convention, CNN led the pack with an average of 6.2 million viewers, followed by MSNBC with 4.9 million, NBC with 4.2 million, ABC with 3.5 million, CBS with 2.9 million and Fox news with 2.4 million.

Those numbers do not include other networks that were not included in the early Nielsen ratings, such as C-Span and PBS, nor do they count anyone that may have streamed the convention on their computers or mobile devices.

Night 3 of the DNC saw Vice President Biden and President Obama speak in support of Hillary Clinton.

It’s the first time in history that the network has taken the Republican and Democratic national conventions out of the rigid timeslot confines of the morning, evening and hour or so block in primetime and turning it loose on its livestreaming video news channel, CBSN.

CBSN, launched just under two years ago, is airing nearly 19 hours a day during the convention and partnered with Twitter to stream both the RNC and DNC on their platform. In addition to CBS “This Morning,” “The CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” and “Face the Nation”, CBS has brought nearly all of its news shows to the conventions, airing from both the skyboxes and, in Pelley’s case at the DNC, right on the convention floor.

“It’s great,” said former “Face the Nation” moderator Bob Schieffer, who is still with CBS as a contributor, as he walked on set on Tuesday evening. “Now we get to add the third, and fourth and fifth paragraphs to our stories. It used to be about two paragraphs long. And it really is fun and it’s almost like when I first came to CBS and we had gavel to gavel coverage, and now we’re back to doing it again. I just thoroughly enjoy it."

For the week of the Republican National Convention, CBSN brought in 7.6 million cumulative stream (Sunday through Saturday), with the average viewing session reaching nearly an hour (on Apple TV the average the viewing session was a whopping 95 minutes). Data on viewership from the Twitter stream was not available.

“It’s maximizing what CBS does so well, and having it in this format and on a wheel. It’s easily sampled in different ways,” said Josh Elliott, the face and anchor of CBSN who joined from NBC Sports in March.

But Elliott asserts that the livestreaming operation is just an extension of CBS’ old-school (in quality) newsroom, and not a separate silo.

“I feel like it’s always important that any journalism be done in a way that institution does it best. When institutions fail is when they get away from what they do best,” Elliott added in the hallway outside of CBSN’s box, before anchoring Monday evening proceedings.

CBSN executive producer Mosheh Oinounou said it doesn’t take much to make livestreaming magic.

“You have a bunch of smart people with interesting insights. You put them together for a conversation and you start to see sparks,” Oinounou said, alongside Elliott.

These conventions have turned into a trying first run for CBSN. From chaos on the floors, to news events occurring around the world — shootings, terrorist attacks and attempted coups — it’s been stretching the CBS News muscle.

The convention is enough news in itself.

“I have never ever, I have said this about 35 times, I have never ever seen anything like this year. Starting with these primaries. I was one of the few who thought Trump would get the Republican nomination. But I thought after.. McCain…Kelly, I thought he would have done himself in. Somehow he had done himself in and kept going,” Schieffer said, his eyes getting larger.

CORRECTION: Elliott joined CBS from NBC. Prior to NBC he was with ABC. This post has also been updated to correct the spelling of Josh Elliott's name.

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Hillary Clinton will sit down with "Fox News Sunday" moderator Chris Wallace on Sunday, her first interview after accepting the presidential nomination of the Democratic Party.

The interview with Wallace, which will air on “Fox News Sunday” Sunday morning, and on Fox News at 2 p.m. and 6 p.m., will be the candidate’s first appearance on the weekend show in nearly five years. Wallace said Wednesday that it took him about 15 months to nail down the interview with Clinton’s campaign.

Clinton, who largely avoided Fox News until this election cycle, has appeared on the channel four times since she announced she was running for president more than a year ago. Most recently, she called into “The O’Reilly Factor” to discuss the terror attack in Nice, France, earlier this month.

It’s been 235 days since Clinton has held a news conference. The former secretary of state has granted a number of sit-down interviews with various news outlets this year, including an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier in June.